Chapter 465: The Evil God Festival - Boathouse

The two sides of the mirrored water wall reflect Taville and Spades.

The countless threads of Taville and Spades fly upward, are straightened out, and derive into the depths of the universe, which spreads without limit and flows through a distant door.

Behind the door is fourteen year old Bai Liu sitting in a chair with Bai Liu embracing him, silk threads passing through the door directly under Bai Liu's chair, tied around his wrists and ankles.

Heavy threads wrapped Bai Liu sheepishly, and Bai Liu stroked the heavy threads that fell on Bai Liu's shoulders, smiling softly:

"The suffering of the sacrifices and attendants is ultimately an offering to God, and the more the sacrifices and attendants struggle, the more pain God receives."

"Only God is the most painful creation."

"Do you think so?" Bai Liu's hand passes through the silk threads and brushes them away from Bai Liu's face, holding the side of his face and saying softly, "It's such a pathetic look, but so perfect."

"There is no better heir than you."

Bai Liu looked down at Bai Liu's black eyes without a hint of light and hooked the corner of his mouth, "If you were a god, who would you pick to be your beloved sacrifice?"

"Is there a need to pick and choose?" Bai Liu suddenly spoke up, he raised his eyes, looking through the silk threads at Bai Liu, "Isn't there always only one sacrifice that is placed before me, one soul that has been offered to me in love, from beginning to end?"

[System Warning: Player Bai Liu's mental value is zero, opening a berserk panel!]

Bai Liu's right hand cages the silk thread and pulls it towards his side, Bai Liu, who is also entangled in the silk thread, is pulled to take a step towards Bai Liu's side, and both of them step into the void at the same time.

"Surely I can't fool you." Bai Liu smiles at Bai Liu during his descent , "You are far too perceptive to the love and pain you receive."

"You're the most perfect mirror I've ever seen."

Bai Liu's hand touches Bai Liu's dark eyes through the overflowing threads, and out of nowhere he whispers, "I can see clearly in your eyes what I have."

"What I Have ......"

The descending Bai Liu's hair spreads upwards, strands of hair and transparent threads fly past the corners of his eyes, which calmly reflect everything in the universe, and look directly at Bai Liu, but do not reflect Bai Liu's shadow, only a door with a silvery-blue halo.

"It's just a door without a key."

Bai Liu laughed as he snapped his fingers and the [Door] appeared directly below them, opening to them, and he and Bai Liu fell into the door entangled in the silk threads.

"Bai Liu, where did you say the key to the door was?"

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu triggered a plot point to enter "The Evil God Sacrifice Act III"]

Fires broke out, and screams continued to emanate from inside the shrine, which was shrouded in flames.

Inside the Shrine.

Bai Liu returned to the timeline of five years ago in an instant, and he looked across the room at Bai Liu, his eyes glowing an eerie silver-blue color, before he dryly threw a whip towards Bai Liu's face.

The whip struck over and smashed directly into the pond below the shrine, cracking the bottom of the pond, and the pond water flowed downward along the cracks, revealing a barren bottom.

In the center of the pool lies Taville, blindfolded by silk threads, soaked to the skin, huddled at the bottom of the pool, choking and coughing weakly, clutching in his right hand the coin given to him by Bai Liu.

Without hesitation, Bai Liu jumped into the bottom of the pool and was about to run in the direction of Taville.

The black bone whip falls in front of Bai Liu, spinning out bone spikes, Bai Liu dodges it with a clever jump backward, and throws out a whip to block it.

The whips intertwine, and Bai Liu and Bai Liu drag the handles in almost perfect unison of movement, pulling the whips in their direction.

Bai Liu looked up at Bai Liu, who looked back at him with a smile, "Although I do use a weak body now, and you have forced yourself to explode at your limit, it's not that simple for you to win against me now."

As soon as Bai Liu's words left his mouth, Bai Liu simply released the whips that were pulling at each other, his right hand turning into a monkey's paw and his gaze calmly vibrating outwards.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu is using player Mu Sicheng's Explosion Skill (Thief Sneak) - Ultra Full Speed Stamina Slot Empty]

Almost in a blink of an eye, Bai Liu appeared in front of Bai Liu, he threw out his long hand, and his fingertip sharp monkey claw grabbed at Bai Liu's neck, Bai Liu quickly sidestepped, but Bai Liu's monkey claw grew a section out of nowhere, hooked onto the Reverse Cross Pendant hanging on Bai Liu's neck, and ruthlessly pulled it outwards!

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow and quickly crouched down to let the pendant fall back around his neck while swinging his whip backhanded and wrapping it around, the outer sheets of the bone spikes snagging into Bai Liu's wrists in an attempt to throw him off.

Bai Liu flips his wrist and comes right after him, the monkey's paw going straight for Bai Liu's throat.

"What a nice reaction." Bai Liu leaned back and stepped back as he smirked and pointed to the reverse cross pendant in front of his heart, "When did you guess that this body was summoned to my descent with this pendant and not a supposed wish?"

Bai Liu's eyes were cold and stern, he didn't talk to Bai Liu at all, he raised his hand and attacked Bai Liu's left hand, the target was obvious, it was the Reverse Cross Pendant.

"Well, it looks like you're not going to say." Bai Liu smiles and asks thoughtfully in return, "Then I'll have to guess for myself."

"It's because you found out that the Wish Tier here doesn't even reach the God Tier, and that you've managed to summon Taville in reality as a believer using the Reverse Cross Hanging as a token, yes?"

"But unfortunately." Bai Liu's eyes scattered as he lifted his hand in a strike, taking hold of the monkey's paw that Bai Liu was striking at him as he smiled, "This pendant disappeared after because of Spades' complete destruction of Taville."

Bai Liu's chest rose and fell very lightly, and his wrists, which Bai Liu had gripped, were full of blood holes pierced by bone spikes that were now dripping downward.

Bai Liu smiled, "With your current strength, if you want to take the Inverse Cross from my hands, you're still almost lucky."

"But alas, your luck seems to be ...... the same."

"Die Bai Liu!!!" A mournful female voice roared from Bai Liu's back, and at the same time, a short knife pierced out from Bai Liu's chest.

The strength of this short knife piercing sent Bai Liu's body towards Bai Liu's face a little bit, and this little bit was just enough for Bai Liu's outstretched monkey paw to hook onto the reverse cross pendant swinging out in front of Bai Liu's heart.

Bai Liu clutched the Reverse Cross Pendant and yanked it outward, and in the next second, the smirk on Bai Liu's face deepened as he backhanded a whip to open up Kitahara Xiao Kui, who was behind himself, who was sending his short sword into his body with all his might, the long whip in his hand dissolving into a poker.

The poker's coldly glinting edge slashed toward Bai Liu's right wrist where he clutched the reverse cross pendant!

Bai Liu's right hand fell off with a loud thud, and blood gushed out.

Xiao Kui was swept by the whip hitting a pillar and falling off, she fell to her knees and vomited a large mouthful of ebony blood.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu switches to player Liu Jiayi's system panel and uses Personal Skill (Antidote) on himself]

Bai Liu directly threw out a bottle of antidote to interrupt the reach out to grab hold of the falling reverse cross pendant Bai Liu, antidote in the air flipped and poured, fell on Bai Liu's severed right hand, Bai Liu's right hand instantly grows back, and immediately raised his hand is a whip thrown on the antidote bottle, breaking the bottle.

Bai Liu's hand holding the Reverse Cross Pendant is shaken off by Bai Liu's whip.

After briefly severing the connection with the Reverse Cross just now, Bai Liu's movements had obviously become slower, but he still reacted extremely fast, almost with a speed that was invisible to Bai Liu's naked eyes, he hooked back the Reverse Cross pendant that had been shaken away by Bai Liu with his fingers.

The moment he gripped the cross pendant, Bai Liu paused for a moment, and with a low smile he raised his head, stretching his right hand flat to release it.

-- A pendant in the shape of a coin fell from his hand and swung twice like a pendulum.

Bruised and battered, Taville chokes and opens his hand--which no longer contains coins, but the reverse-cross pendant from Bai Liu's body.

[SYSTEM WARNING: Player Bai Liu's token prop (Reverse Cross Pendant) that summoned the Evil God has disappeared, and the Evil God is about to leave the game copy.]

"That's funny." Bai Liu's body turned deathly white little by little, just like a real corpse, but he was still smiling, looking at Bai Liu with that kind of interest, as if he was looking at some never-before-seen creatures, "That's so funny."

"In that moment just now, you seized the opportunity to unite the other two to exchange the Reverse Cross Pendant in my hand."

"You're actually putting the key to victory on a chip that's not even a sure thing, and by helping the other guy to get the other guy to help you."

Bai Liu looks over to Xiao Kui, who is limp in the corner, "--just like the last match."

He raised the corner of his mouth and shifted his eyes to the blood-covered Bai Liu's body, "I don't know, when did you have this simple thought of [no good deed goes unpunished]?"

"Are you preparing to defeat me by relying on this [good guys will definitely defeat bad guys], [good will eventually triumph over evil] type of stuff?"

"Friendly reminder." Bai Liu smiles, "The last person to harbor that thought never beat me."

"It's true that I can't win against you now." Bai Liu, who had been struck against the pillar, slowly raised his head, his voice broken and hoarse, but still articulate, "And I don't believe in good karma."

"As I perceive it, most of the time, most of the time in this world it's the bad guys who have it better than the good guys."

"You're making me even more curious as to why you chose to do this?" Bai Liu laughed, "Since you and I share the same perception, there's no way you're going to put your chips to beat me on a little npc girl."

"Because I beat you once." Bai Liu looks calmly straight at Bai Liu, "I'm not doing a good job."

"I just replicated my last win over you when I couldn't think of anything else."

Bai Liu was quiet as he clapped his fists in sudden realization, "Because you helped Yuan Guang last time to let you win me by mistake, you chose to verify again this time if such an approach is feasible."

"That's interesting."

Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu with a light smile, "Obviously all you've been getting all along is the negative feedback I've designed for you [Good will be rewarded with evil], and helping others will get you bad karma."

"But you just help someone once, and the result of getting positive feedback from them makes you start to transform."

"Bai Liu, you're even starting to make me wonder if [I'm] just a good kid at heart."

"I'm really looking forward to what you'll become the next time I see you."

[System Alert: Evil God has left player Bai Liu's body]

Bai Liu smiles, the skin on his face erodes and peels away piece by piece, and the moment Bai Liu's body closes its eyes and collapses, Bai Liu also falls to his knees at the same time.

He braced himself against the floor with no blood in his face at all and took two deep breaths before he could barely stand.

Bai Liu heals himself with the antidote as he staggers over to Taville in the pool.

He pauses beside Taville for a moment, then bends down and picks Taville up in a horizontal hug.

Taville, who was blindfolded with silk threads, wrapped her arms around Bai Liu's shoulders as he was picked up, and called his name very softly, "...... Bai Liu?"

"You hold my shoulders steady." Bai Liu takes a deep breath and switches to holding Taville tightly with one hand, then carries the unconscious Xiao Kui on his back as well, his face calm as he says, "That bitch Bai Liu isn't done with what she left us."

"The group from the Gobunshi family is waiting outside right now."

"I'll get you out of here before you say anything."